08-10-2012, 09:21 AM
I usually respect Mark Stapleton's views very much, but I think it's a huge mistake to follow the likes of Rago. Rago's theories about the assassination are in the same league with Ray Carroll and Tom Purvis. They really aren't worth debating, or even trying to decipher.
That being said, I object to the idea that postulating Israeli involvement can be so cavalierly smeared as anti-semitism. I was a long time subscriber to The Spotlight. In the days before the internet, it was really the best source to get alternative news. Yes, they were thoroughly obsessed with Israel, and tended to see a Mossad agent behind every tree. However, they produced some great investigative journalism. They were the first to publicize the Bilderbergers, and sent legendary reporter Jim Tucker to infiltrate their meetings every year. They also were the first to truly expose vote fraud in America, when they serialized much of the Collier brothers' ground breaking work Votescam.
I don't think that Israeli was the primary mover behind the JFK assassination, but I won't discount their possible involvement, either. There were overlapping motives among many powerful forces, and I don't doubt that the Mossad and the CIA were interwoven at many levels even back then. I think it's unfair to Piper do dismiss his work out of hand. Like Armstrong and other controversial researchers, one can glean useful information from the research without swallowing a whole thesis.
As a point of reference, among those who sat on the board of directors for Liberty Lobby, publisher of the Spotlight, was activist/comedian Dick Gregory. Fletcher Prouty spoke at the 1990 Liberty Lobby Board of Policy convention and said, "If anybody really wants to know what's going on in the world today, he should be reading The Spotlight." And, of course, Mark Lane served as their attorney in the high profile cases against Jack Anderson and E. Howard Hunt.
That being said, I object to the idea that postulating Israeli involvement can be so cavalierly smeared as anti-semitism. I was a long time subscriber to The Spotlight. In the days before the internet, it was really the best source to get alternative news. Yes, they were thoroughly obsessed with Israel, and tended to see a Mossad agent behind every tree. However, they produced some great investigative journalism. They were the first to publicize the Bilderbergers, and sent legendary reporter Jim Tucker to infiltrate their meetings every year. They also were the first to truly expose vote fraud in America, when they serialized much of the Collier brothers' ground breaking work Votescam.
I don't think that Israeli was the primary mover behind the JFK assassination, but I won't discount their possible involvement, either. There were overlapping motives among many powerful forces, and I don't doubt that the Mossad and the CIA were interwoven at many levels even back then. I think it's unfair to Piper do dismiss his work out of hand. Like Armstrong and other controversial researchers, one can glean useful information from the research without swallowing a whole thesis.
As a point of reference, among those who sat on the board of directors for Liberty Lobby, publisher of the Spotlight, was activist/comedian Dick Gregory. Fletcher Prouty spoke at the 1990 Liberty Lobby Board of Policy convention and said, "If anybody really wants to know what's going on in the world today, he should be reading The Spotlight." And, of course, Mark Lane served as their attorney in the high profile cases against Jack Anderson and E. Howard Hunt.